This shutdown is a tool to appease a narrow group of immigration hardliners who spit out unsupported facts about immigration to an ignorant audience with prejudiced itching ears but most illegals immigrate LEGALLY then overstay.

In Evangelical America, we are still struggling to arrive at the position where we will be considered “full” brothers, not mere brothers, or “secondary subordinate, servants to our white saviors.” Read the story of two struggling missionaries of color.

Two unnamed officials told the New York Times that President Trump said people coming from Haiti "all have AIDS," that Nigerian immigrants would never "go back to their huts" and that Afghanistan is a terrorist haven.